Though voter turnout was quite low for Tuesday’s municipal election (around 25%), women carried the day, at least for the Pennsylvania courts, winning seven of the eight open seats up for grabs. Here’s a look at how the races panned out: Supreme Court Sallie Mundy...

The first and only “code bill” to reach the Governor’s desk this fiscal year is H.B. 59 (Moul, R-Adams), the Human Services Code bill. Although the Governor has until October 28 to sign the bill into law, he previously stated that he will use his veto power due to a...

Pennsylvania has been without a completed state spending plan for the current fiscal year for more than three months now. While the General Appropriations bill became law on June 11, the legislature has still not reached a consensus on a revenue package. This week, we...

Weekly Wrap With a national holiday on Monday and no session for either chamber, it was a quiet week in the Capitol. There was no movement on any legislation and very little budget talk. However, there is some news you can use from the Governor’s Office. Last week,...

Weekly Wrap This was the Senate’s first week back from their summer break and it was rather quiet up on the hill as negotiations were still taking place on the budget. The Senate sent their spending plan to the House of Representatives on July 27, but the House sent...

Weekly Wrap As of our last writing, the General Assembly had sent Governor Wolf a budget bill in time to meet the June 30 deadline, but failed to pass legislation that would raise the revenue needed to foot the bill. By the end of July, the Senate had passed a revenue...